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What Vinted charges in 2026

Vinted flipped the usual marketplace model. In the United States the seller pays nothing: no listing fee, no commission, and no payment processing taken out of your payout. The charge sits on the buyer's side, and Vinted calls it the Vinted fee.

Vinted's US price list, last updated October 8, 2026, describes that fee as a percentage of the item's or bundle's price plus a fixed amount, usually 5% + $0.70. A $40 item costs the buyer $42.70. You receive $40.00.

The name is new, the amount is not. Until October 8, 2026 the same charge was called the Buyer Protection fee, and the 5% plus $0.70 math in the US did not move. If you find "Buyer Protection" on an older screenshot or blog post, it is the same line item. The Vinted price list and the Vinted fee help page are the two pages worth bookmarking, because those are the ones Vinted updates.

Shipping is not your problem either. The buyer pays postage on every order, and the amount shows at checkout before they confirm. The only seller-side charge on the whole price list is optional promotion.

Worked example: a $40 dress

Say you list a dress at $40 and someone buys it with the Buy now button. Here is the full split:

• Item price: $40.00
• Vinted fee, percentage part (5% of $40.00): $2.00
• Vinted fee, fixed part: $0.70
• Buyer pays: $42.70 before shipping and any sales tax
• Your payout: $40.00

Now subtract what the sale cost you. You paid $12 for the dress and about $1.50 for a mailer, tape and a label sleeve, so your costs are $13.50. Profit is $40.00 minus $13.50, or $26.50, a 66.3% margin on the sale price.

The buyer's fee works out to 6.75% of the item price. That number is worth remembering, because it is what the buyer sees when they weigh your $40 listing against a $38 listing from someone else. On the cheap end the fixed $0.70 bites harder than the percentage: on a $10 item the buyer pays $1.20, which is 12% of the price.

What the same $40 sale pays on other resale apps

Zero seller fees is the reason a lot of people try Vinted, and the gap is real. Assume the buyer pays shipping on all five apps, so the seller's fee base is the $40 item price:

Poshmark's $8.00 is the widest gap, and it is not a rounding error. Sell 20 items a month at $40 and the difference between Vinted's cut and Poshmark's is $160 in your pocket.

Before you move everything over, weigh what the fee buys. Poshmark's 20% includes a prepaid shipping label and a buyer base that pays more per item, especially for brands. Vinted's US operation only started opening up in 2026, so the audience is smaller and skews toward low-priced everyday clothing. A $40 dress that sells in a week on Poshmark at $32 net beats a $40 dress that sits for three months on Vinted at $40.

Pricing around the $0.70

Two rules cover most of it. The first is that the fixed $0.70 shrinks as a share of the price, so cheap single items look expensive to buyers:

The second rule: the fee is charged once per order, not once per item. If a buyer picks two of your $30 tops in one order, the fee is 5% of $60 plus $0.70, or $3.70. Bought as two separate orders they would pay $2.20 twice, $4.40. Bundling saves the buyer $0.70 and it saves you a second trip to the post office.

If you want to keep a buyer's total under a round number, work backwards. A $50 ceiling means the highest list price is $46.95, because ($50.00 - $0.70) / 1.05 = $46.95. Odd-looking prices like $46.95 read as a discount rather than a markup, which is why a lot of Vinted sellers land there on purpose.

Bumps and the only fee a seller can pay

The one place a seller can hand money to Vinted is promotion. A Bump pushes a listing higher in search and in buyers' feeds for 3 or 7 calendar days, and Vinted prices it by item price and by whether the reach is local or international. The fee is shown before you pay, and it can change if you edit the price after buying the Bump.

Treat a Bump like any other ad: it has to earn back more than it costs. If a Bump costs $1.20 on a $40 dress, you need one extra sale for roughly every 33 sales you would have made anyway, or $24 a month if you bump 20 listings. Sellers who repeat the same style usually get more out of fresh photos and a relist than out of paying for position.

Everything else you spend is yours: mailers, tape, printer ink, and gas to the drop-off point. Budget $1.00 to $2.00 per order and your margin math on Vinted stays honest. That is still a better deal than a 20% commission on a $40 item, which is $8.00, or four to eight orders' worth of supplies.

Do you owe tax on Vinted income?

Yes, if you made a profit. Money from selling goods online is reportable whether or not anyone sends you a form, and the form is not what triggers the tax. The federal 1099-K threshold for payment apps and marketplaces is now over $20,000 in gross payments and more than 200 transactions, so most casual Vinted sellers never see one. The IRS 1099-K page puts it plainly: report all income from selling goods or services no matter the amount.

States can set a lower bar. California still requires a 1099-K for app-based drivers at $600 while matching the federal $20,000 and 200-transaction test for marketplaces, as the California FTB explains. If you sell in volume, check your own state's rule rather than assuming the federal number is the only one.

Clearing out your own closet is different from running a business. Selling personal items for less than you paid is not a taxable gain, and the loss is not deductible either. Buying to resell is a business, which means the profit is taxable and your costs, including the fee the buyer pays, are deductible.

What the zero percent costs you

Nothing is free, and on Vinted the trade is control and speed. Shipping runs through Vinted's integrated labels or your own carrier choice, which means less freedom to shop around for a cheaper rate than on Poshmark, where the label is bundled into the fee you pay.

Payouts land in your Vinted balance and you transfer out from there, so your money is not in your bank the moment the buyer confirms. Vinted Pro, the business account with bulk tools and invoicing, is not open to US sellers yet, so anyone running a real resale operation here does it on a personal account. For a few dozen items a year that is fine. For a few hundred, the missing tools start to cost more than the fees you saved.